Question About the Standard Investigator Agreement for California
by Brian
Thank you for your website, it has really fantastic information! My question is in regards to the Standard Investigator agreement that California prefers their investigators to use. Once the claimant sees that the funds are being held by the State Comptroller's office, what is to stop them from claiming the funds themselves? Should we then send two customer service agreements? One that is to get them to agree to the 10% fee and then later we send the "standard investigator agreement" reminding them that the first agreement they signed is still valid? I just wanted to make sure I had that right... Thanks for your help!  From Mark: Brian, I think most of the time people don't even put two and two together regarding where the money is being held, but yes, there are some that do. Are you asking if it is a good idea to send two copies of something like this simple agreement that is only three sentences long that should not be a problem for anyone to sign and that you need that in order to do further investigation? Then, are you asking when you do receive that signed agreement, should you then send them the agreement that the state requires letting the claimant know that you did some further investigation and found that their money is being held by the State of California and California requires this standard agreement or the claim won't be processed, yet the original three sentence agreement with the same exact percentage commission is still valid? Well, I don't think I really can tell you to do that or not, but it sounds like you are on to something!  I hope this helps. |
